Communications and transit > Enquiry on national public works

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A. Public Works borne on the Unemployment Budget.
Table i shows that the total credits included in the unemployment budget for the
execution of public works under open-market conditions amount to 79,821,400 crowns
(column 3). This total is divided among the various credits as follows :
Crowns
“ Anticipatory ’ ’ State works 3,000,000
‘ ‘ Anticipatory ’ ’ communal works 8,5°°, 000
Grants in aid of dwelling-house construction 23,000,000
Road and railway crossings at different levels (overhead- and sub¬
ways) 7,000,000
Bridges and harbours ■ 6,000,000
Malung-Vansbro line of the State Railways 800,000
Casual work for the upkeep of private forests 5,000,000
Subsidies for plant for storing fertilisers 700,000
Loans for plant for storing fertilisers 500,000
Land reclamation work to combat unemployment 4,000,000
Subsidies for land-drainage works 1,000,000
Construction of roads and log-floating channels in private forests. . . 500,000
Loan Fund for workers’ small-holdings 7,500,000
State buildings 12,321,400
Total... 79,821,400
Rules governing the allocation of credits.—Briefly, the following are the rules governing
the use of the above credits.
In the case of “ anticipatory ” Government works, the rules are the same as those
applied in the financial years 1931-32 and 1932-33 to the “ anticipatory ” works for
combating unemployment described in Section I.
The credit for “ anticipatory ” communal works refers, as its name suggests, to works
executed for strictly communal purposes. They must be of such a kind that they cannot
be executed as State-subsidised communal reserve works, or, as a rule, with the help of
a State subsidy. The contribution to “ anticipatory ” communal works is given either
in the form of a non-interest-bearing loan that is not written off for the first five years,
or a non-redeemable grant. Applications must be sent to the Government.
The credit for grants in aid of dwelling-house construction refers to the erection of
dwelling-houses both in towns and similar centres and in the country.
The provisions governing the former are laid down in the Decree of September 16th,
I933 (Syensk forfattningssamling No. 558). The State grants loans for the construction
of buildings chiefly intended for dwelling purposes. No grants can be made for buildings
which would probably be erected in the near future without Government aid, nor for
those built directly by the commune concerned. The amount of the loan must not exceed
one-fifth of the advance obtained on the open market and forming a first charge on the
property. It must also not exceed 15 % of the value of the property, as determined in
certain specific circumstances, or of its taxable value after the building is completed.
Matters connected with these loans are dealt with by an office specially set up for the
purpose—the State Building Loan Department.
The provisions governing buildings for dwelling purposes to be erected in rural
districts are laid down in the Decree of June 30th, 1933, concerning the improvement
grants and loans for new buildings designed to encourage the building industry in rural
districts (Svensk fdrfattningssamling No. 473) and in the Decree of September 16th, 1933,
extending the application of the said decree (Svensk fdrfattningssamling No. 545). Other
provisions will be found in the Decrees of June 30th and September 28th, 1934 (Svensk
fdrfattningssamling Nos. 411 and 486).
Improvement loans are granted for carrying out the necessary sanitary repairs and
other housing improvements, and also, in certain circumstances, for building dwelling-